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  • Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

  • I get all fired up about aging in America.

    Birthday   Fire   America  
  • Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.

    Running   Jobs   Pain  
    "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2012.
  • The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

    Hands   Quality   Cliffs  
  • We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

    Inside Hoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.
  • In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

    Wall   Judging   Bars  
  • Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

    Fire   Organization   Add  
  • You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

  • I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

    Dad   Player   Bass  
  • In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.95
  • The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

  • Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

    Success   Business   Fire  
    "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. March 21, 2004.
  • Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

    Strong   Jobs   New York  
  • I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

  • Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

    Jobs   Fun   Writing  
  • Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

    Dream   Decision   May  
  • It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  • I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

    "Mirror scoops sacked NBC man". www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2003.
  • Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

  • My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

    Thinking   Giving   Arms  
  • My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

    Mother   Pounds   Lost  
  • In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

    Jobs   Mean   Careers  
    Source: chicago.gopride.com
  • The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

    Real   Editors   Lines  
  • In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  • Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

    Wall   Kids   Vicious  
  • I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

  • It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

    War   Patriotic   Fire  
    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.140, Algora Publishing
  • In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

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